Sheldon's website is such an awesome relic of the internet we all miss. It still has a ton of relevant information if you ever find yourself dealing with obscure wheel sizes or something like that. Love it. RIP.
Readit Newsczscout commented on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info sheldonbrown.com/... · Posted by u/ostacke
czscout commented on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple... · Posted by u/stygiansonic
OpenAI had it, they had the foot in the door with their integration last year with Siri. But they dropped that ball and many other balls.
Yeah, I was really expecting them to just continue the partnership that Apple announced when the iPhone 16/iOS 18 came out, but I suppose it's been pretty much radio silence on both fronts since then. Although the established stability and good enough-ness that Google offers with Gemini are probably more than enough reason for Apple to pivot to them as a model supplier instead.
czscout commented on AI scrapers request commented scripts cryptography.dog/blog/AI-... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Having a front door physically allows anyone on the street to come to knock on it. Having a "no soliciting" sign is an instruction clarifying that not everybody is welcome. Having a web site should operate in a similar fashion. The robots.txt is the equivalent of such a sign.
And a no soliciting sign is no more cosmically binding than robots.txt. It's a request, not an enforceable command.
czscout commented on Broadcom loses another big VMware customer theregister.com/2024/12/0... · Posted by u/belter
It really does seem as though Broadcom is entirely shifting VMware's focus the the top 5 or 10 percent of customers who probably make up the vast majority of the actual profits. The message they've delivered time and time again to businesses outside that group is pretty simple "go away" price.
czscout commented on New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/rmason
All the crew members of the Endurance survived the expedition - not sure about the "didn't make it" comment, or to which part of the article you are referring.
I believe they are referring to the fact that the article states that every crew member survived. As in, none of them didn't make it.
czscout commented on PEP 760: No more bare excepts discuss.python.org/t/pep-... · Posted by u/ayhanfuat
Personally, I don't agree with this proposal. While yes, I agree, that bare excepts are often a source of bugs, I don't think it should be the language's responsibility to nanny the programmer on such things. To me, this seems to only reduce the functionality of the language. If explicit exception handling is necessary, let the programmer make that decision.
czscout commented on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana apnews.com/article/mariju... · Posted by u/JacobHenner
Nope. ATM withdrawal. My bank even reimburses the ATM fee associated with it
An ATM withdrawal with a credit card is a cash advance.
czscout commented on Zooming User Interface (ZUI) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo... · Posted by u/TheFreim
Reminds me of Prezi. Do people still use Prezi?
First thing that came to mind. I remember in school at least 10 years ago we used it because a teacher liked it. Most of us just used it as a Powerpoint alternative, but a few kids definitely harnessed the extra power available over a generic slideshow. I remember being really impressed at the creative presentations a few people made with it. Fun times.
> That's where social media has been most damaging. You can't share your thoughts anymore. The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility. No longer can you just throw something out there, no matter how stupid. These days you have carry an entire encyclopedia with you in order to back up every last thing you say and if you utter anything that isn't deemed 100% perfect by those listening, the social scorn will fall upon you.
I understand this fear when posting on reddit (or other social media) itself, but I am absolutely confused where this idea that this applies to reality comes from.
I think the point is that this person has spent so much time experiencing this phenomenon on the internet, that the effects are bleeding into reality.
The trend of posting a page here based on some detail from a comment, that was posted in another thread ("What's that touchscreen in my room?" in this case) a few days ago, has become quite frequent and a bit annoying.
To everyone who wants to write: but I didn't read that thread and I find this quite interesting; you are free to find it interesting, but I did read about it 2 days ago and to me it looks like karma farming.
Not everyone spends so much time on this site that they can easily spot a post as an extension of a related discussion elsewhere on the site. Someone posted this page, it got upvoted by others who found it interesting, and now it's on the front page. What's wrong with that?